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Also simply application or app. Computer software designed to perform a group of coordinated functions, tasks, or activities for the benefit of the user. Common examples of applications include word processors, spreadsheets, accounting applications, web browsers, media players, aeronautical flight simulators, console games, and photo editors. This contrasts with system software, which is ...
FOSDEM —Free and Open-source Software Developers' European Meeting. FOSI —Formatted Output Specification Instance. FOSS —Free and Open-Source Software. FP —Function Programming. FP —Functional Programming. FPGA —Field Programmable Gate Array. FPS —Floating Point Systems. FPU —Floating-Point Unit. FRU —Field-Replaceable Unit.
List of computer term etymologies. This is a list of the origins of computer-related terms or terms used in the computing world (i.e., a list of computer term etymologies ). It relates to both computer hardware and computer software . Names of many computer terms, especially computer applications, often relate to the function they perform, e.g ...
Rolodex. A Rolodex is a rotating card file device used to store a contact list. Its name, a portmanteau of the words "rolling" and "index", has become somewhat genericized for any personal organizer performing this function, or as a metonym for a total accumulation of business contacts. In this usage, it has generally come to describe an effect ...
Optical character recognition or optical character reader ( OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene photo (for example the text on signs and billboards in a landscape photo) or from subtitle text ...
A technology consisting of computer components and recording media used to retain digital data. It is a core function and fundamental component of computers. [1] device memory. local memory associated with a hardware device such as a graphics processing unit or OpenCL compute device, distinct from main memory.
A simple tickler file may use any number of folders. A tickler file or 43 Folders System is a collection of date-labeled file folders organized in a way that allows time-sensitive documents to be filed according to the future date on which each document needs action. Documents within the folders of a tickler file can be to-do lists, pending ...
Subject indexing. Subject indexing is the act of describing or classifying a document by index terms, keywords, or other symbols in order to indicate what different documents are about, to summarize their contents or to increase findability. In other words, it is about identifying and describing the subject of documents.